person

person

Legally, any natural or artificial person, which would include corporations, partnerships, associations, and limited liability companies. If it is important to distinguish among the “persons” who may do something or who are prohibited from doing something, relevant contracts, leases, or statutes will usually define the term.

The analysis of 187 cases of pronouns use in both The Financial times and The Wall Street Journal articles on politics, economics and social issues has shown that there are 125 examples of the indefinite pronouns (67%) and 62 instances of personal pronouns (33%) used as means of impersonalization.

Kinship terms and personal pronouns do not convey marked attitudinal meanings if they are used according to the speakers' family and social roles and level of deference determined by their relationships.

While Sonnet 5 attempted to extract the second person singular element from the vial, Sonnet 6 replicates the process by attempting to do the opposite, thereby creating a compound in which "thou" has an overwhelming share: the second person singular personal pronoun appears in the sonnet no less than 14 times in five different forms.

Company, indeed, both establishes and puts into question its own fictional ground, space, or machinery by dividing its narrative and discourse according to the three classes of personal pronoun, whereby the "one on his back in the dark"--the figure supposedly at the center of the tale--is given in the third person as the apparent addressee of a "voice" that speaks in the second, a voice which says, for example, "You are on your back in the dark," "You first saw the light on such and such a day," "Your mind never active at any time is now less than ever so," and so on (3-5).

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